GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| giddy | dizzy |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| scion | descendant |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |